#22613: remaining corrections in extending/reference docs (thanks Jacques Ducasse)

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
index a3bf265..e78fe0c 100644
--- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst
+++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst
@@ -857,11 +857,8 @@ reclaim the memory belonging to any objects in a reference cycle, or referenced
 from the objects in the cycle, even though there are no further references to
 the cycle itself.
 
-The cycle detector is able to detect garbage cycles and can reclaim them so long
-as there are no finalizers implemented in Python (:meth:`__del__` methods).
-When there are such finalizers, the detector exposes the cycles through the
-:mod:`gc` module (specifically, the :attr:`~gc.garbage` variable in that module).
-The :mod:`gc` module also exposes a way to run the detector (the
+The cycle detector is able to detect garbage cycles and can reclaim them.
+The :mod:`gc` module exposes a way to run the detector (the
 :func:`~gc.collect` function), as well as configuration
 interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime.  The cycle
 detector is considered an optional component; though it is included by default,